Why Frankfurt Is the Best Location for EU Game Servers
If your community is in Europe, where you host matters as much as the hardware. Frankfurt is consistently the best choice for EU game servers — here's why.
The networking heart of Europe
Frankfurt is home to DE-CIX, the largest internet exchange point in the world by traffic. A huge share of European internet traffic passes through the city, which means networks there are exceptionally well-connected to the rest of the continent.
For a game server, that translates directly into lower, more stable ping for players spread across the EU — from the UK and France to Poland, Romania and the Balkans.
Central = low average ping
Ping is dominated by physical distance. A server in the geographic and network centre of Europe minimises the average distance to all your players, rather than being great for one country and bad for the rest.
- Short, direct routes to most of Western and Central Europe.
- Excellent peering with major ISPs and carriers.
- Dense connectivity to Eastern Europe and the Balkans, where many gaming communities are based.
Routing matters as much as distance
Two servers the same distance away can have very different ping if one is poorly routed. Because Frankfurt is so densely peered, traffic tends to take short, direct paths — fewer hops, less latency and fewer of the routing detours that cause lag and packet loss.
Built for protection too
Frankfurt's connectivity isn't just good for latency — it's also where large-scale DDoS scrubbing capacity lives. Hosting there lets us route every server through our multi-Tbps filtering network without adding meaningful latency.
Frankfurt gives you the best of both worlds: the lowest average ping in Europe, and the room to absorb terabit-scale attacks.
That's why every ESAGAMES game server is hosted in Frankfurt on our own well-peered network — low latency for your players, with Anti-DDoS built in.
Low ping, in the heart of Europe
Deploy a protected game server in Frankfurt and give your whole community a stable, low ping.
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